I don't see why nannies think they should may more than whatever anyone pays an evening sitter. If you only hire an evening sitter for a few hours every few months its not a big deal to pay then 10-12-15..it really doesn't matter that much to employers.

If you are hiring someone for 45-50 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, the average rate matters a lot as you are talking about differences of thousands of dollars. The DC market is $12-$15 average and no where near $20-$30 as one nanny desperately hopes you will believe.

Every average $1 per hour costs the employer $2,860 (factoring in 10%/$260 for taxes, etc). If you hire a nanny for an extra $3 more than the market or other qualified candidates then you just wasted $8,580 dollars. Its financially irresponsible to over pay for something at this level unless you have lots of discretionary wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to get paid $15/hour in high school and that was 7 years ago in Indiana

Looks like the "$15/hr market rate nanny" is a grand myth well promoted by a couple of individuals on this board. From what I hear out in the real world, it's closer to $20-30/hr. for professional nannies in the Washington area.

How much you pay, depends on who you want.

Lots (but NOT most) parents in the Washington are can afford the 20 to 30 range for a professional nanny who is everything they want. Mostly, that means a well-established history of proven success.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to get paid $15/hour in high school and that was 7 years ago in Indiana

Looks like the "$15/hr market rate nanny" is a grand myth well promoted by a couple of individuals on this board. From what I hear out in the real world, it's closer to $20-30/hr. for professional nannies in the Washington area.

How much you pay, depends on who you want.

I was paid $15+/hr for babysitting in small town Maine when I was in middle school and high school in the 90s/early '00s.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to get paid $15/hour in high school and that was 7 years ago in Indiana

Looks like the "$15/hr market rate nanny" is a grand myth well promoted by a couple of individuals on this board. From what I hear out in the real world, it's closer to $20-30/hr. for professional nannies in the Washington area.

$30/hour? LMAOOOO. Now that's a delusional myth that is VERY rare. If this was the case then most people would skip college and go strait into nannying.

I was paid $12-$16/hr as a HS babysitter in the (omg) 90s...

I am really surprised that IN teenagers get $15/hr to babysit but ok. that is totally irrelevant to the DC market though. My nanny earns 800 a week but there is no way i'd pay a teenager $15/hr to babysit my sleeping kids. that's nuts - but if that is what families need to pay in IN, then more power to them. It's not what I need to pay here to get a grad student even to sit.

Anonymous wrote:We live in NY and my teenages does get $15/hour to babysit.

Thank god, how else would she afford that $300 prom dress??

Anonymous wrote:We live in NY and my teenages does get $15/hour to babysit.

They did not say that ALL NY parents pay their HS sitters that rate, but some apparantly do pay $15/hr.

We live in NY and my teenages does get $15/hour to babysit.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to get paid $15/hour in high school and that was 7 years ago in Indiana

Looks like the "$15/hr market rate nanny" is a grand myth well promoted by a couple of individuals on this board. From what I hear out in the real world, it's closer to $20-30/hr. for professional nannies in the Washington area.

Yeah, right. Good luck finding that $30/hr job.

Anonymous wrote:I used to get paid $15/hour in high school and that was 7 years ago in Indiana

Looks like the "$15/hr market rate nanny" is a grand myth well promoted by a couple of individuals on this board. From what I hear out in the real world, it's closer to $20-30/hr. for professional nannies in the Washington area.

I used to get paid $15/hour in high school and that was 7 years ago in Indiana

A parent in NY says that 15 year old highschool kids get paid $15/hr. to babysit.

Same rate as "professional nanny" "market rate"??

...on "home care"?